ACF Snippets

It’s been a long awaited feature but as of version 5.11, the Advanced Custom Fields Pro license key can now be hard-coded using PHP into your WordPress configuration file. It’s simply a case of adding the following constant to your wp-config.php file or a config plugin of your own: See the offical release notes here: […]

In my work on the ACF Custom Database Tables plugin, I write a lot of automated tests to ensure consistent handling as the plugin’s codebase evolves. A big part of this involves updating ACF fields using the update_field() function and then checking to make sure the data is stored in the database as expected and […]

This snippet will allow you to register a custom toolbar configuration for your WYSIWYG fields. This is super handy when you need to give the user basic controls such as text colour and linking without all the added bits and pieces that come with the basic toolbar option.

ACF JSON is a great tool for version-controlling, deploying, and syncing ACF field groups across installations. Sometimes, however, having just the one acf-json dir can feel like a limitation. Fortunately, ACF allows us to register multiple load points which makes it possible to move ACF JSON files wherever they make the most sense. Register a […]

If you’re like most WordPress Developers I know that use Advanced Custom Fields’ Flexible Content Field as a custom page builder, it’s likely you’ll be working with a large number of layouts. All of the logic could be contained in one file however I prefer to split each ‘row’ into its own partial for easy maintenance. […]

If you’re using ACF-JSON to manage your field groups there’s typically no need to see the ACF menu item called ‘Custom Fields’ on your staging or production sites. It’s likely you’d need to keep the ACF ‘Custom Fields’ menu item visible for local development. You can use a variation of the snippet below to do exactly […]